Dave Shoots Books

Just a reminder to our followers: Every #book we feature here is #ForSale! We can send them anywhere #CanadaPost delivers (pick up in person if you're in/near #SaintJohn, #NewBrunswick)! If you see something you like, send us a DM, and we'll make it happen! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky

Buy this #scarce early #20thCentury #ChildrensBook for the #animal #illustrations by #AEKennedy, who also illustrated most of #AlisonUttley's #books! $30. #Booksky #WildAnimals #art #OldBooks

Just in time for #WomensHistoryMonth! This 1946 #book has #essays about 15 influential #women. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/6879... #Booksky #leaders #MarieCurie #AmeliaEarhart #FlorenceNightingale #HarrietBeecherStowe #HelenKeller #EdithCavell #JennyLind

Lots of #NewBrunswick #genealogical information in this #scarce 1982 #book! #Photos, #maps, and even a #song! $85. #Booksky #Miramichi #Irish #StPatricksDay #FamilyHistory #lumbermen #genealogy

This 2004 #biography of #Cleopatra would make an excellent #gift! www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1518... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth #AncientEgypt #Egypt #Pharoah #history

This 1996 #book by former #SaintJohn #newspaper #editor, #FredHazel, has reminiscences about life in #Fairville, and a trip to #Ireland. #Signed. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1628... #Booksky #StPatricksDay #NewBrunswick #Irish

#ElizabethBarrettBrowning was born on this day in 1806. We have a #book of her last #poems, and a 2-volume set of her #letters: www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #poetry #oldbooks #prettybooks #BritLit

SOLD!!!

Thank you! Will get it out to you tomorrow!

Wonderful day to explore the 4000+ interesting #books on our #website, and buy a few: daveshootsbookseller.com Save the shipping and the exchange if you pick up your order in West #SaintJohn! We also #ship worldwide at our cost. #Booksky #LocalHistory #NewBrunswick #oldbooks #PrettyBooks

This ca. 1880 #poetry #book by #OliverGoldsmith features both gold and silver #gilt on the cover, and gilt page edges. #Illustrated by #HammattBillings (who was also an #architect). It could be yours for only $15! #Booksky #PrettyBooks #OldBooks #DesertedVillage #poems

This 1990 #book tells about #Irish #immigration to #NorthAmerica. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1730... #Booksky #StPatricksDay #genealogy #Ireland #NewBrunswick #SocialHistory

We have this #scarce #biography of #Moncton #nurse, #AlenaJeanMacMaster: www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1729... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth #NewBrunswick #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #medical

This 1929 #LargeFormat edition of #JamesFenimoreCooper's #Deerslayer features 9 stunning #ColourPlates by #NCWyeth! Slight #oldbooksmell. $50. #Booksky #literature #art #ChildrensBooks #FirstNations #oldbooks #PrettyBooks

This scarce book about an #Irish #woman 's seven years living in #NewBrunswick in the mid- #19thCentury is back in stock.
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1742... #Booksky
#biography #WomensHistoryMonth #StPatricksDay #LocalHistory #SocialHistory

#NovaScotia #boxer, #SamLangford was born on this day in 1883. We have his #biography. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1663... #Booksky #Blacks #boxing #sports #racism

This 1962 #biography written by #SaintJohn 's own #LarryWiezel (aka #LawrenceEarl) tells about #MaryBall, an #Anglican #missionary to #China. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1580... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth #religion

Just in time for #StPatricksDay... an 1893 #history of #Ireland (up to 1608) by #PWJoyce. #Colour #foldout #map.
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/4048... #Booksky #oldbooks #FirstEdition #Irish

Back in stock! We have this #scarce 1905 #FirstEdition of #WORaymond 's #history of the #StJohnRiver. Gifted to #CGordonLawrence, #GrandChaplain of the #GrandLodgeofNewBrunswick in 1924 ( #Masons). #Illustrated with #B&W #photos and #maps. Fair. $80. #Booksky #asis #LocalHistory #NewBrunswick

I've been making this recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (1984) for holiday meals for years (cook turnip pieces and onions in water over medium heat, covered, until turnip is fork tender - about 20 minutes):

This pretty little ca. 1900 #JohnRuskin #book features a #pastedown on the front cover. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1660... #Booksky #SesameandLilies #Victorians #SocialHistory #philosophy #literature #OldBooks #PrettyBooks #LittleBooks

The first #woman to become a member of the #NorthwestMountedPolice was from #Johnville, #NewBrunswick!
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1680... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth #KatherineRyan #KlondikeKate #LocalHistory #biography #CanadianNorth

Some #Iran #history #books from the late 1970's:
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1517...
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1309... #Booksky #biography #shah #Pahlavis #CIA #politics

YES!!!

We can help you celebrate two of these...you're on your own for the pie! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #ReadAcrossAmericaDay #NationalOldStuffDay #oldbooks #reading #books #Prettybooks #LocalHistory

We have a 2020 #book about the #Miramichi #fire:
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1664...

I read it when I was about 12...saw a fantastic theatrical production of it a few years ago! I'd forgotten a lot of it. Steinbeck is my favourite author!

The #articles in this #scarce 1981 #book originally appeared in the #StJohnSun in 1893. There's some overlap with #SaintJohn #history and #people. $20. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #Fredericton #NewBrunswick #Loyalists #politics #GabrielLudlow #EdwardWinslow

#JohnSteinbeck was born on this day in 1902...
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1667... #Booksky #OfMiceandMen #AmericanLit #literature

We have several of #HenryWadsworthLongfellow 's #books in stock:
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #poetry #poems #AmericanLit #oldbooks #prettybooks